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3Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released ????????????)
4==================================================================
5
61. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
7 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
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92. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
10 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
11
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123. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
13 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
14 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
15 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
16
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174. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
18 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
19 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
20
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215. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
22 previous version.
23
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246. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
25 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
26 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
27 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>.
28
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297. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
30 the next volume in restore.
31
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328. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
33 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
34 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
35 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
36 script parameters and return codes.
37
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38Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
39==================================================================
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90aa4874 411. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 42 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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442. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
45 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
46 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
47 bug and providing a patch.
48
a01aa5e8 493. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 50 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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52 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
53 drives supporting variable block size.
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55 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
56 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
57 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
58
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594. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
60 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
61 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
62 it upstream.
63
43460f04 645. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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65 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
66 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
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686. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
69 are now based on the configure parameters.
70
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717. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
72 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
73 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
74 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
75 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
76 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
77 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
78 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
79
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808. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
81 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
82 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
83
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849. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
85 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
86 correctly).
87
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8810. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
89 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
90 process per tape).
91
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9211. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
93 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
94 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
95 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
96
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97Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
98======================================================================
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99
1001. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
101 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
102 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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1042. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
105 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
106 who reported this stupid error.
107
a1158276 1083. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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109 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
110 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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1124. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
113 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
114 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
115 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
116 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
117 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
118
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1195. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
120 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
121 for the patch.
122
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1236. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
124 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
125 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
126 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
127 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
128 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
129 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
130
7ae7e2fd 1317. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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132 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
133 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
134 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
135 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
136 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
137 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
138 useful thoughts.
139
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1408. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
141 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
142 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
143 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
144 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
145
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146Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
147=======================================================================
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1491. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
150 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
151 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
152 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
153 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
154 a fix.
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1562. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
157 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
158 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
159 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
160 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
161
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1623. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
163 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
164 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
165 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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1674. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
168 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
169 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
170 when multiple -e options are used.
171
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1725. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
173 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
174 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
175 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
176
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1776. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
178 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
179
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1807. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
181 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
182
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1838. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
184 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
185 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
186
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1879. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
188 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
189 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
190 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
191
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19210. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
193 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
194 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
195 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
196
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19711. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
198 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
199 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
200 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
201
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202Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
203=====================================================================
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204
2051. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
206 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
207 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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2092. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
210
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2113. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
212 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
213 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
214 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
215
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2164. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
217 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
218 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
219 for reporting the bug.
220
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2215. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
222 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
223 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
224 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
225
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2266. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
227 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
228 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
229 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
230 reporting the bug.
231
3e815572 2327. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 233 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 234 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
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2368. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
237 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
238 library in order to compile the readline support.
239
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2409. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
241 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
242 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
243 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
244 for providing the patch.
245
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246Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
247===================================================================
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2491. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
250 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
251 the bug.
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2532. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
254 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
255 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
256 for the bug report.
257
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2583. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
259 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
260 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
261 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
262 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
263 the bugs to me.
264
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2654. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
266 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
267 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
268 to make network backups should read first the man page
269 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
270
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2715. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
272 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
273 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
274 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
275
ac443b63 276Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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278
2791. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 280 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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281 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
282
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283 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
284 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
285 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
286 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
287 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
288
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2892. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
290 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
291 the patch.
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2933. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
294 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
295 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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296 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
297 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 2994. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 3015. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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302 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
303 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
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3056. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
306 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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307 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
308 suggestion.
309
3107. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
311 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
312 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
313 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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315Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
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3181. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
319 output of dump.
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3212. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
322 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
323 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
324 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
325 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
326 character at the end).
327
3283. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
329 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
330 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
331
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3324. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
333 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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334 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
335 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
336 patch.
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3385. Added the device name and the current volume number
339 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
340
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3416. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
342 broken it in 0.4b15).
343
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344Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
345===================================================================
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3471. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
348 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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3502. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
351 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
352 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
353 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
354 who forwarded me his mail).
355
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3563. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
357 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
358 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
359 pager etc.).
360
3614. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
362 I made in 0.4b14.
363
3645. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
365 in both dump and restore.
366
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367Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
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3701. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
371 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
372 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
373 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
374 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
375 bug and submitting the patch.
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3772. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
378 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
379 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
380 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
381
3823. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
383 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
384
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3854. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
386 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
387
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3885. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
389 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
390
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3916. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
392 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
393 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
394
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3957. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
396 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
397 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
398 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
399 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
400 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
401 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
402 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
403 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
404 helping me test the fix.
405
4068. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
407 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
408 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
409 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
410
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411Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
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4141. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
415 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
416
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4172. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
418 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
419 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
420
8d957ae7 4213. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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422 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
423 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
424 helping me find this bug.
425
8d957ae7 4264. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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427 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
428 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
429
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4305. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
431 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
432
2f9a0c5c 433Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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4361. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
437 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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4392. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
440 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
441 submitting the patch.
442
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4433. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
444 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
445 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
446
4474. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
448 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
449 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
450
4515. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
452 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
453 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
454 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
455
4566. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
457 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
458 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
459 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
460 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
461
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4627. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
463 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
464 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
465 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
466 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
467
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470
4711. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 472
144a6db1 4732. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 474 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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475 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
476 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
477
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4783. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
479 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
480 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
481 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
482 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
483 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
484 asking to enter a new tape each time.
485
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487 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
488 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
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490Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
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4931. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
494 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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495 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
496 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
497 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
498 glitches.
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501 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
502 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
503 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
504
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5053. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
506 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
507 contents.
508
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5094. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
510 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
511 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
512 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
513 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
514 it is dumped (it should not).
515
5165. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
517 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
518
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521
5221. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
523 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
524 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
525 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
526 this and providing the patch.
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529====================================================================
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5311. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
532 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
533
5342. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
535 easily verify the version he is using.
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5373. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
538 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
539 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
540
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542 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
543 for submitting the bug report.
544
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546 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
547
5486. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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549 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
550 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
551 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
552
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554 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
555 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
556 this should work.
557
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558Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
559===================================================================
560
5611. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
562 was not compiled in.
563
5642. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
565 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
566
5673. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
568 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
569 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
570 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
571 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
572
5734. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
574 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
575
5765. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
577 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
578 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
579
5806. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
581
5827. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
583 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
584 dump).
585
5868. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
587 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
588 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
589 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
590 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
591 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
592
5939. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
594 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
595 /etc/dumpdates.
596
59710. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
598 included the current date/version in man pages.
599
60011. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
601 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
602 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
603 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
604 the results canceled each other...
605
606Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
607===================================================================
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6091. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
610
611 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
612 isn't specified.
613 - several fixes in the man pages.
614 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
615 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
616 - buffer overruns.
617 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
618 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
619 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
620 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
621
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6222. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
623 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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6253. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
626
6274. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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628 routines (only if available).
629
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6305. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
631 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
632
633Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
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635
6361. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
637 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
638 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
639 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
640 RMT etc.).
641
6422. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
643
6443. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
645 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
646 when comparing).
647
6484. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
649 This works for me, needs further testing.
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651Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
652====================================================================
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6541. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
655 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
656
657Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
658========================================
659
6601. Use realpath() if available
661
6622. Report statistics
663
664Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
665========================================
666
6671. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
668 the patch)
669
6702. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
671
6723. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
673
674Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
675======================================
676
6771. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
678
6792. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
680
6813. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
682
6834. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
684 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
685
6865. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
687 distribution's one) to use autoconf
688
6896. Fixed a few minor bugs
690
691Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
692======================================
693
6941. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
695
6962. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
697
6983. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
699 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
700
7014. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
702 not restored.
703
7045. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
705
7066. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
707 correctly files ending by a hole.
708
709Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
710======================================
711
7121. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
713 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
714
715Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
716======================================
717
7181. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
719
7202. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
721
722Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
723======================================
724
7251. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
726
727Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
728======================================
729
7301. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
731
7322. Enabled optimization again.
733
734Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
735=====================================
736
7371. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
738
739Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
740====================================
741
7421. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
743 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
744 use the mntent functions).
745
7462. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
747 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
748 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
749 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
750 0.2 :-(
751
7523. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
753 filesystems like the BSD version.
754
7554. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
756 than 2 GB.
757
758Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
759====================================
760
7611. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
762
7632. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
764
7653. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
766 incremental backups.
767
7684. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.